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home of many rare and beautiful plants, but also the home of a 

 large number of beneficial birds and harmless quadrupeds, and other 

 interesting forms of wild life. 



To botanists, of course, the peculiar interest in the swamp lies 

 mainly in the abundance here of a large number of plants which 

 occur so sparingly in other portions of the State. 



Paine, in his Catalogue of the Plants of Oneida County (which 



was actually a flora of most of the State north of the lower Hudson 



valley) records the following species from Bergen swamp: 



Aira caespitosa L. 



Arethusa bulbosa L. 



Carex Buxbaumii Wahl. 



Carex Crawei Dewey 



Carex eburnea Boott. 



Carex gynocrates Wormsk. 



Carex Oederi Ehrh. 



Carex prairea Dewey. 



Carex sterilis Willd. 



Carex vaginata Tausch 



Calopogon pulchellus R. Br. 



Calypso borealis Salisb. (C. M. Booth) 



Comandra umbellata Nutt. 



Cypripedium candidum Muhl. 



Eleocharis rostellata Torrey 



Galium boreale L. 



J uncus balticus Willd. 



T uncus acuminatus Michx. 



Juniperus sabina var. prostrata Pers. 



Liparis Loesellii Rich. 



Microstylis monophyllos Lindl. 



Myrica cerifera L. (now known as M. carolinensis Miller) 



Phragmitis communis Trin. 



Potentilla fruticosa L. 



Rynchospora capillacea Torrey 



Salix Candida Willd. 



Scirpus caespitosus L. 



Scirpus pauciflorus Lightf . 



Scirpus Torreyi Olney. 



Senecio balsamitae T. &G. 



Solidago Houghtonii T. &G. 



Sol id ago ohioensis Riddell 



Tofieldia glutinosa Willd. 



Triglochin maritimum L. 



TriglochinpalustreL. 



Triticum caninum L. 



Valeriana sylvatica Banks. 



Zygadenus glutinosa Nutt. 



As far as the present writers are aware the only species in the 

 above impressive list which has not been recently collected there 

 are Calypso borealis and Scirpus Torreyi. It is 

 true that considerable lumbering has occurred in the surrounding 

 woods, but that has seemingly caused little harm to the plants of the 

 open marly bog sections and the rare plants found there seem to 



